
Here is a list of the focus stacking software mention above with links: It can do everything I want to do now in the beginning. You have then to do it in two or more steps.Īfter some search on internet I found a German software, Picolay. ImageJ and Hugin are free but they can not handle a DSLR raw format. Now in the beginning I look for a free software that I can get some experience from. Helicon Focus and Zerene stacker are good what I have read, they are not free but seems to have a 30 days free trail. ImageJ which I use in astrophotography is one, Hugin is another. There are many software that can do this more or less automatic. With focus stacking you normally have 20 photos or more and then the above method is unpractical. You set a layer for every photo and with mask get the areas with sharpness and then blend them together. If there are only a few photos you can do it with Photoshop or Gimp or other image editing tool.
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Wikipedia: wiki/ Focus stackingWikipedia, information about focus stackingīut how to get all these separate photos to one alone photo with focus all over the object?.Wikipedia has more information about focus stacking: Together these photos will cover the whole object in focus. One technique to overcome this is to take a lot of photos at different focus points. When taking macro photos you get a very narrow focus depth.Įven with a very small aperture the focus depth is narrow. Tutorial: Many short or few long exposures ?įocus stacking 1.

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